ASI Conserva Chile has successfully received the Bitcoin 100 donation, and we're ecstatic! We'll be using the funds to support bringing key indigenous leaders in Latin America to our conservation congress this summer.

Rassah: As for actual Coinbase process, did you encounter any problems? Did you just input the amount into the entry field? If there is just a problem with the radio buttons, Coinbase allows you to enable/disable that feature. It actually seems better to me to disable them anyways.

Thanks all for the attention and the good points. I´m traveling and out of consistent internet access until Thursday, but I´ll look more closely into the button interface and provide some actual feedback later this week. I´m by no means a Bitcoin expert, so the easiest solution might just be switching to a different intermediary such as Bitpay.

I appreciate all of the help though!

Huzzah! In reference to my earlier posts about ASI Conserva Chile, our bitcoin donation button is up and running on our website. You can view it in the upper-right corner of any of our "Who are we" (Quienes Somos) web pages: http://www.asiconservachile.org/ I'm talking to the webmaster to ensure that the button is available for viewing from all of our pages. Just a small fix.

Given that ASI Conserva Chile is not a U.S.-based non-profit, we just went with what I personally use, Coinbase. However, if you highly recommend Bitpay, I'll make the switch.

Please let me know your thoughts!

And thank you! We really appreciate your consideration.

I understand Phinnaeus. I just sent out an email to our webmaster, and hopefully we'll have a button up within a few days. I'll check back in here once I'm sure that everything functions well.

Thanks!

Hello Rassah (and everyone else on this forum!),

My name is Cary Kelly, and I am the outreach campaign manager for ASI Conserva Chile. ASI Conserva Chile is the only association of conservation initiatives in private and indigenous land reserves in Chile, and one of few such organizations in Latin America. Recently, we launched an Indiegogo campaign to sponsor scholarships for indigenous leaders to attend our biodiversity conservation congress this summer. Indigenous communities in many Latin American nations struggle to gather the financial or technical resources to participate in growing conservation initiatives, and we want to change that by bringing key indigenous leaders into the dialogue.

As you can probably assume by my simple presence on this forum, we have decided to open up our campaign to bitcoin donations. Indiegogo does not formally integrate bitcoins into their campaign platform, but we're independently accepting bitcoins which we will then re-donate into the campaign fund, acknowledging the donor and their preferred bitcoin donation method.

We would be honored to be recipients of a Bitcoin 100 donation of any amount, and we have plans for future bitcoin incorporation soon! Though our small, mostly volunteer team in hectically busy in anticipation of our conference in Congress, we're currently discussing how and when to integrate donations into our own organization (www.asiconservachile.org). Bitcoin awareness is fairly nonexistent here in Chile, but people are slowly catching on.

Here you can learn more about our campaign:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/indigenous-leader-scholarships-latin-american-conservation-congress/x/1273897

And here is our address where we're accepting donations for the campaign: 1H8Sdng8dQwk7CmT7frs6GGLmfzs2gFwXH

If donating, we would still like to recognize you on our platform and offer you the listed perks, so please shoot me an email at cary @ asiconservachile.org

Please let me know your comments and questions!

Best Wishes,

Cary Kelly
ASI Conserva Chile

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So I created an account over a few weeks ago, and have posted at least 5 times. Yet I'm still set as a newbie. Advice? It won't let me reply to non-newbie forum posts...

Actually, I think the average Indiegogo campaign is about 40 days...ours has approximately 35 days left.

I assume you were referring to the campaign projects, correct?

Solid, easy to understand articles. I appreciate it.

And main differences between bitinstant and coinbase?

Coinbase takes 30 days to establish an account though, true? Or that's what I've read...

Thanks for the help!

Hello world!

I'm the manager of a modest environmental indiegogo campaign, and I'm trying to weigh the advantages of opening up our campaign to receive bitcoin donations. The indiegogo platform itself does not facilitate transfers, so I would have to do the leg work myself, later donating the funds in USD to the campaign.

Advice?

In terms of money flow, I'm thinking about this:

1. Contributor send bitcoins to my wallet.
2. I convert bitcoins to USD
3. I donate USD to campaign, recognizing donor name, guaranteeing perks, etc.

I could also use some secure advice on the most trusted intermediaries, etc. I've done a fair amount of reading over the past few weeks, but I still fancy myself, well...an utter noob.

I do have a verified Mt. Gox and Dwolla account though. (Yes, I know Dwolla is not transfering to mtgox right now)

I can't post links (like I said, noob) but you can check out our campaign by searching ASI Conserva Chile on the indiegogo homepage.

Obviously, I'm new, and trying to figure out the best way to *modestly* jump in the bitcoin game. What are all of these problems attributed to? Bitinstant delays, or user error?

Best Mt. Gox deposit method right now? With the recent news about Dwolla, and Aurumxchange not accepting new accounts, I'm unsure of how to proceed. I'm not looking at investing a huge sum, but I still want to be smart about my decisions...Should I just go with Coinbase instead?

Best Mt. Gox deposit method right now? With the recent news about Dwolla, and Aurumxchange not accepting new accounts, I'm unsure of how to proceed. I'm not looking at investing a huge sum, but I still want to be smart about my decisions...